Revision Plan

            Revisions… revisions. At the moment my news team document is the main thing I need to focus on. I am only at about 3ish pages, and I am somewhat unsure on how to expand upon it. I feel like I’ve talked about all I can. Yet, at the same time, I feel like there should be plenty of information on such a large and expansive topic. I may go into the more political side of things. What kind of progress towards it is being made in Washington, and who is fighting for its establishment.

                The writing source review worried me somewhat as well. I felt that there was not much more I could do to discuss web writing that works as a site. I talked about the content. The site had a lot of good info that was very useful. Navigation was another key point that I valued highly in a site. Web writing definitely had that. They had a large section about genre and several sub tabs on the side of the screen directing you to specialized genre topics.

So believing I had covered my main website I decided to compare it to another highly reputable site. Purdue OWL happened to be that site. I decided to discuss its format and content. OWL seemed to be lacking in both.  

In my Genre Group document you told me, in your review, that I should “talk about source more as commentary.” I had done more of a summary of the article rather than analyzing it as commentary. I am going to take that into consideration, maybe pulling out specific examples that lend its self to commentary.

Other than the problem with the problem about commentary, I felt like the genre group document was the piece I was most confident with. This is mainly because you said you really enjoyed it. You liked my creative example, to quote “The example was good!” You went on to say that it would be somewhat angering if the pricing model I gave was something they had planned on using. It was not any pricing model that companies have put out. I made it up to show an “extreme” that isn’t that far fetched.

I plan on using Wired.com a pretty good bit for my News Team document. They have a pretty decent amount of information on Net Neutrality and the like.

Purdue OWL will be another source I use for correcting any grammar issue I might have. They seem to have a very robust selection of material, and will be very helpful when it comes to proofreading my documents.

This class has made me a far better writer. When I first came into this class I was scared to death of writing. I have never been a strong writer, throughout my years of school. I remember my first issue ever with writing.

In fourth grade, I had to create a picture book/ story about two animals. We had worked on it for 3 days and on the third day I had the pictures all drawn up but I couldn’t figure out how to put my words on the paper in a decent format. I couldn’t seem to make that connection from brain to pen to paper. I lacked the ability to express myself into complete thoughts on the paper. In the end of that class they forced me to stay inside for recess and complete the assignment.

This may seem trivial but from that point on I never felt as though I had a good grip on writing. I couldn’t understand how people couldn’t sit in history class on test day and spit out 3 pages like it was nothing. I remember many times where I would have been writing a paper in class, focusing as hard as possible. I would finally hit one page. I would feel very accomplished, until I looked around the room. Every other person would be well on their way to two pages while I was stuck lagging behind. I just could not figure out the problem, and I am still not sure to this day.

I have improved though, yet I still feel that unless I have several days to work on something I will not produce quality work or it will not meet the length requirements. I am unsure how to improve the speed of my writing aside from finding word prompts and trying to write every day. I just feel that if other people can “just do it”, why can’t I just figure out what they do and mimic them.